Mostly About Organized Crime

05/22/2013

Mob-lawyer-turned-Las-Vegas-mayor Oscar Goodman is out with his memoir Being Oscar, and "the most colorful and candid material in the book is about his notorious clientele" including Genovese associate Meyer Lansky, casino boss Lefty Rosenthal and Chicago Outfit enforcer Tony Spilotro as reported by George Knapp for KLAS.

Goodman insists that although he defended mobsters he never was a mob consigliere:

"None of my clients ever asked, should they kill anybody," Goodman said.
"Nobody said, should we burglarize this? Some of my detractors would
have me as a consigliere, but the truth is, they did not consult with
me. They protected me. They did need me, and they needed me to be
straight."

02/20/2013

Last year the Mob Museum opened in Las Vegas, NV in the old courthouse where
Sen. Estes Kefauver held one of his 1950 committee hearings into
organized crime, and so far "visitation numbers are far short of estimates" as reported by Doug Johnson for KVVU.

01/18/2013

A lot of corporate lawyers probably found their clients on the golf course.

Former Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman found his mob clients during his defense lawyer days at the blackjack table according to his upcoming memoir Being Oscaras reported by Richard N. Velotta for the Las Vegas Sun: "he said the book chronicles his childhood in Philadelphia, attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania and his cross-country trek with his wife to Las Vegas, where friendly conversations at a blackjack
table led to him representing the likes of Meyer Lansky and Anthony 'Tony the Ant' Spilotro."

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